> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Aahan Krish <kr...@aahan.me> wrote: > My understanding from talking to different people is that many do use > > tabs (instead of spaces) for indentation in their code. > > > > My question is to them (because I want to use tabs too) is: how do you > > maintain a line-length of 79 characters? > > > > E.g. scenario: The tab setting in your editor could be 2 or 4, and in > > other developer's browser it could be 8. The code will be longer than > > 79 chars in the latter's editor. > > > > I want to know if it's at all possible or if you use some simple and > > realistic (practical) hacks. > > > > *PS: Please avoid, "That's why you should use spaces," type of > > comments. I would like to avoid flame wars.* > > > > TY, > > Aahan
On Sunday, December 7, 2014 6:26:01 PM UTC-8, jtan wrote: > One reason why you would want max length 79 is because of working with > terminals. Maybe ssh to you server and check how many spaces are consumed by > a tab? In my boxes, it is usually 1 tab = 8 spaces. So perhaps just use > that setting in your editor? My terminals are 120 columns wide. Are there still people that are limiting their terminals to 80 columns? If so, why? I mean, I can understand if you're running on an ancient square monitor, but I see no reason to limit your terminal to 80 columns if you're running any sort of window environment on monitor with a horizontal resolution greater than 1280. "Because that's how we've always done it!" is a pretty shitty reason to continue doing something. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
